David Lawrence Schwimmer (born November 12, 1966) is an Emmy-nominated American actor and director, who gained popularity when playing Ross Geller on the American sitcom "Friends".

Yosef Blau is an Orthodox rabbi. He currently serves as the Mashgiach Ruchani, Director of Religious Guidance at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), Yeshiva University, since 1977. Current president of the Religious Zionists of America (RZA). Rabbi Blau earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959 from Yeshiva College. He earned a Masters of Science degree at the University's Belfer Graduate School of Science in 1960, …

For the last 14 years, David Clohessy has served as the national director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, the nation's largest and oldest self-help group for clergy molestation victims. In that role, he has traveled and spoken extensively, helping to set up local support groups in more than 50 cities. Clohessy was one of only four survivors to address all of America's Catholic Bishops at their historic meeting in Dallas in 2002.

Paul Martin Andrews is an American rape victim's advocate. In 1973, he was kidnapped in his native Virginia and hidden in an underground box by a known sexual predator, Richard Ausley. Thirty years after his ordeal, he went public with his story and became an activist for bolstering Virginia law with additional funding for continued civil commitments for sexual offenders after their criminal sentences end.

Gabrielle Monique Union (born October 29, 1972) is an American actress and former model. Among her notable roles is as the cheerleader opposite Kirsten Dunst's in the film "Bring it On". Union also starred opposite Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in the blockbuster film "Bad Boys II" and played a medical doctor in the CBS drama series "City of Angels".

Tori Amos is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. She is married to English sound engineer Mark Hawley. Together they have one daughter, Natashya "Tash" Lórien Hawley, born on September 5, 2000. Amos was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few music stars to use a piano as her primary instrument.

Mukhtaran Bibi is a Pakistani woman from the village of Meerwala, in the rural "tehsil" (county) of Jatoi of the Muzaffargarh District of Pakistan. Mukhtar Mai suffered a gang rape as a form of honor-revenge (see honour killing), on the demands of tribesmen - or by some accounts, on the orders of a "panchayat" (tribal council) - of a local clan known as the Mastoi, a clan that was richer and more powerful than Mukhtaran's clan, the Tatla.

Mesa Leventhal Baker is a pediatrician and specialist in the treatment of child abuse. She received her undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree from the Pennsylvania State University in 1984, and obtained her Medical Degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1988. Dr. Baker completed her internship and residency training in pediatrics in 1991 with the U.S. Army at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, TX. Dr.

Florence Holway (b. June 2, 1915, in Massachusetts) was a 75-year-old woman who was raped and sodomized on March 31, 1991, in her Alton, New Hampshire home. Her subsequent fight for justice ultimately resulted in changes to that state's rape laws and is the subject of a 2005 HBO documentary entitled "Rape in a Small Town: The Florence Holway Story", which chronicles her ordeal. Following the assault, Holway incorrectly believed that her attacker, John LaForest, …

Barbara Blaine , the head of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, told CBC News that the Pope's words were not enough and actions were required. "What would make a difference would be if the Holy Father would act," Blaine said, "punish those pedophile priests and the cardinals who help them cover up.

Oleta Kirk Abrams (Lee) (1927-2005) was one of the three founders of Bay Area Women Against Rape, the first rape crisis center in the U.S., and the first victim-witness advocate for the Alameda County district attorney's office. She became involved after her 15 year old daughter was raped at her high school. Abrams was appalled at the treatment her daughter received both from the school and the hospital to which she was taken.

Debbie Gross is a developmental psychologist. She is the founder and director of the Crisis Center for Religious Women in Jerusalem, Israel, which addresses domestic violence in the ultra religious orthodox communities Ms. Gross is also a member of the Jerusalem Advisory Board Against Family Violence, the Board of Directors of the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel and the Knesset's Committee for the Status of Women.

Maureen Greenwood-Basken is an American human rights activist. She has an undergraduate degree in Psychology and Slavic Studies from the University of Michigan; and a masters degree in International Relations from the University of Chicago. Maureen serves as the Advocacy Director for Europe and Eurasia in the Washington office of Amnesty International. She promotes the role of human rights issues in United States foreign policy. Ms.